Artist: Brand New
Album: Deja Entendu
Brand New’s alt-rock record titled Deja Entendu was released in the summer of 2003 to mostly positive reviews. The album marked the bands second studio release, with a majority of the songs written and performed by enigmatic and eternally intriguing frontman Jesse Lacey. With Brand New’s debut album, titled Your Favorite Weapon, being mainly a pop-punk album about breaking up with his girlfriend, Lacey explores a variety of deeper themes in his song writing and presents a relatively matured voice throughout Deja Entendu. With movie references scattered throughout song titles such as “Tautou,” and “Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t,” the album provides listeners with a genre-defining album that reaches towards blending witty cynicism and misguided teenage angst. Other notable tracks on the album include “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,” “Play Crack the Sky,” and “I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light.”
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